The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives but memory tradition and myth frame our response.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

There is a single light of science and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

The respect for human rights essential if we are to use technology wisely is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary it is integral to science as also to scholarship in general.

Instead in the absence of respect for human rights science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.